I learned a lot of things in my AP US History class junior year. Most importantly I finally learned what the Missouri Compromise is. Some of my classmates were amazed I didn’t know what it was until...

Our main political parties in the United States, the Republicans and the Democrats, seem to have existed forever; it is hard to picture them in their infancy. But, even though one major party across the...

The saying “live each day like it’s your last” rang true on Feb. 23, 1836. A group of 100 Texans garrisoned themselves in a Roman Catholic mission as a last ditch effort to hold off the incoming...

In the late 19th Century in America, women were a long way off from gaining the right to vote, serving in Congress and being paid the same amount of money per hour as men. But in 1879, women everywhere...

I’ve always felt that whatever America does, Europe does so much better when it comes to museums. The Smithsonian museums fail in comparison to the Louvre, the Vatican museums and the Nationalmuseet. But...

Death. It is an unavoidable part of life, something  we habitually try to hold off as long as possible. But sometimes the inevitable comes sooner than we’d like and nothing can be done to stop it. On...

Walking through the Main Commons Jan. 28, students found a new addition to the space outside the Planetarium. Today a white background hung on a wall beside the entrance to the Planetarium and a film...

Everyone has a quote that her life is defined by. My quote is “Never enter into a land war with Eurasia.” One of our presidents will be defined by a quote he’d probably pay good money to forget:...

It’s hard to believe, but once upon a time Americans were against fighting other country's wars. America did not enter World War I until 1917, a whole three years after the war began largely because...

When you look at a map, Germany is one of the first countries your eyes are drawn to because it is one of the biggest. It is hard to imagine that the country was once many fragmented states with little...

Every day, a baby is born. In the time it took you to open this webpage and read the first sentence, four babies were born. And today in history, Juan Diego Florez was brought into the world. To the average...